Robert Weimann, Douglas Bruster

Shakespeare and the Power of Performance

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book demonstrates the artful means by which Shakespeare responded to the competing claims of acting and writing in the Elizabethan era.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 559g
• ISBN-13: 9780521895323
• ISBN-10: 0521895324
• Artikelnr.: 24928421

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. 'Moralize two meanings' in one play: contrariety on the Tudor stage
2. Performance, game, and representation in Richard III
3. Mingling vice and 'worthiness' in King John
4. Clowning: agencies between voice and pen
5. Clowning at the frontiers of representation
6. Cross-dressing and performance in disguise
7. Personation and playing: 'secretly open' role-playing
8. Character/actor: the deep matrix
9. Character: depth, dialogue, page
10. King Lear: representations on stage and page.